Issue 6:1 of CounterText features ‘The Fever Chart’, a new and extraordinarily timely novella by John Kinsella. Begun in late…
Category: Politics
By Namatullah Kadrie The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest of many public health crises that have struck Afghanistan—and that…
By Alicia Elias-Roberts My inspiration for writing the article on Balancing Environmental Protection and Offshore Petroleum Developments in Guyana, which…
International Relations
Threat Perception in International Relations: Gender, Race, and Heteronormativity
With the advent of COVID-19, the fear of terrorism – the world’s overriding security concern since 9/11 – has faded into the background.
Many of the themes regularly used for life-guidance based on Stoic philosophy can help with responding to the current coronavirus…
By Heike Henderson What can contemporary techno thrillers tell us about possible future developments in the areas of surveillance, data…
British History
“There’s a lot of mythology about these events”: unreliable narrators of the Battle of George Square
Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’…
What is The nobile Officium? It had previously been regarded as obscure, and few people had even heard of it, but that was all set to change with Brexit.
International Relations
A forgotten rivalry in the Caucasus: 30 years of Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict
Laurence Broers writes on the 30-year Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict: one of the most embittered territorial disputes in the world.
By David Gutman In April 1906, a man appeared at the United States consulate in Sivas, a city located deep…